Eric Thomas Quotes

You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!

Eric Thomas

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• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Time
  • School
  • Model

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Dream

• It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Good
  • Important
  • Fall

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  

  Cavour
  • Tax
  • Imbeciles

• The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Women
  • War
  • Mask

• The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Friend
  • Hand

• At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Enjoy
  • Show
  • Industrial

• As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up

• On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Spring

• When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Art

• If we believe that a person seeking refuge is to be pitied, feared, despised, and looked down upon, we are doing ourselves a disservice.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Believe

• Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

  

  Don McLean

• Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.

  

  Adrienne Monnier
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Melancholy

• People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Work
  • Together
  • Guy

• You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Work
  • Success
  • Sleep